David Long’s Reviews > A Molinist-Anabaptist Systematic Theology > Status Update

"Christ's followers must maintain a healthy suspicion toward every government, particularly their own, if they are to avoid nationalistic idolatry."

"Our baptismal theology proposes that the Church should return to this ancient practice. In this case, when one is baptized the candidate makes final confirmation of the vertical pledge to live a saintly life according to the rules of Christ and of the horizontal pledge that if she or he should stray from this intent, she or he will voluntarily submit to fraternal discipline by the church."

"When such a grammatico-historical hermeneutic replaces the erroneous methodology required by the revisionist version of inerrancy, then the substance of all alleged contradictions generated by the latter are evacuated, thereby drawing all realms of knowledge into a coherent and integrated worldview."

"since the damage humanity has inflicted upon itself is greater than all created things, it follows that the redeemer must be capable of making an infinite satisfaction for such damage. Hence, it is necessary for the redeemer to be God. But the redeemer must also share in the human condition in order to transmit his restoring benefits to humanity..."

"...the overwhelming majority of themes which are commonly identified as 'mysteries,' such as the Trinity, Christology, the relationship between predestination and human freedom, and the problem of evil, are not mysteries at all but are simply misidentified as such to furnish an excuse for an unwillingness to think"

"Like a quilt whose beauty emanates from its panoply of uniquely colored and designed patches, the multifaceted spectrum of human responses to the winds of the Spirit in scripture and tradition contributes greatly to the breadth and vibrancy of Christianity while bearing eloquent testimony to its Christ-enabled power in successfully mediating Ultimate Reality to individuals of every culture and background."